Sebastian Mathias Royer

1676 - 1758  (82 years)

• Name	Sebastian Mathias Royer
  Birth	3 Apr 1676	Bavaria, Germany2   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Aug 1758	Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	Brickerville United Lutheran Cemetery. Brickerville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I1343	Tulpehocken Genealogy | Royer 2, Hackman, Miller, Royer 1
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Hans Georg Rheyer,   b. 14 Sep 1651, Lorraine, France d. 14 Jul 1719, Böhl, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Maria Magdalena Waltz,   b. 1653, Bohl-Iggelheim, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany d. 14 Jul 1719, Bohl-Iggelheim, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	1675
  Family ID	F253	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes Elizabeth Flockwirth,   b. 4 Dec 1688, Munich, Stadtkreis München, Bavaria, Germany d. 1769, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	15 Feb 1707	Bohl, Pfalz, Bavaria, Germany
  Children	1. Martin M Rheyer   bur. Aberdeen Mill Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   2. Heinrich Rheyer   bur. Aberdeen Mill Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   3. Johann Emig Rheyer   bur. Aberdeen Mill Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   4. Maria Magdalena Rheyer   bur. Aberdeen Mill Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   5. Catherine Rheyer   bur. Aberdeen Mill Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA + 6. Johann Emig Royer,   b. 18 Dec 1707, Hassloch, Bohl, Bavaria, Germany d. 2 Apr 1769, Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 61 years)   7. Johann Georg Rheyer,   b. 24 Aug 1710   d. 1803 (Age 92 years) + 8. Anna Margaretha (Hautz) Rheyer,   b. 2 Jun 1713, Haßloch, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany d. 1 Dec 1788, Bethel Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 75 years) + 9. Samuel Rheyer,   b. 4 Oct 1718, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany9 d. 14 Sep 1764, Brickerville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 45 years) + 10. Catherine (Royer) Royer,   b. Sep 1728, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 28 Apr 1809, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F252	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Sebastian Mathias Rheyer (Royer), son of Hans Georg & Maria Magdalena Rheyer (Royer), was born 1676 in Bohl Pfalz, Germany. He is our first direct ancestor in America. On Feb. 15, 1707 he married Agnes Flockirth, daughter of Johann Wendell Muller. Sebastian & Agnes were the parents of eight children born in Bohl and registered in the Hassloch Reformed Church records. Their youngest daughter and ninth child was born in Lancaster County, PA. (I'm listing the eight children: Emig (Amos), George, Maria Magdalena, Anna Margaretha, Martin, Samuel (the authors' link), Henrich, Maria Catharina & Anna Catherine). Sebastian came to the United States (sic) in 1718. It is though he returned and possibly brought his family later because Henry was born in Bohl in 1721. In the book, Ships Passengers of "Delaware" 1641-1823, it lists Sebastian 1726. He was naturalized at a meeting of the Supreme Court in Philadelphia April 11-13, 1743. On Jan. 26, 1743, Sebastian received a patent from grant of William Penn family for 281 acres of land in Warwick Township, Lancaster, County, PA and Feb. 20, 1757, he bought 153 acres from John Wilson. He later had 500 acres, in all, about 30 miles north of Lancaster, PA about one mile south of Brickerville, 1 mile east of 501 on Brubaker Road then left on Rief-Snyder Road. The trustees from the German Zion Reformed Church where Sebastian later was a deacon, accepted 2-1/2 acres of this land for a church and a cemetery on Sept. 21, 1747. Another tract went to the Emmanuel Lutheran Church were Agnes attended. The Zion Reformed Church still stands on the hill up the ravine in which Sebastian's home nestled. The home is now gone but the church as been restored and is used several times a year. Sebastian was a prosperous and strict churchman. He died near Brickerville in Warwick Township, Lancaster County in 1758. His last will was executed Aug. 3, 1758. It is thought he is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in East Brickerville, PA. ----- s/o Hans George Rheyer & Maria Magdalena h/o Agnes Flockerth

  
  

• Sources

  [S44] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Births, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc) (Reliability: 0). [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23085514/sebastian-mathias-rheyer (Reliability: 2).